From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Debian bug 737206 - rc shell uses insecurely /tmp
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 23:31:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f116b9e4891d4e638c439737433da238@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6c5de04e18978ebe0fe44d7913a8264@proxima.alt.za>
> > +1. this is really an important point. think of all the mega person
> > years you could save by doing the simple, systemic things to make
> > the job of maintaining system easier.
>
> You are missing an even more important issue here: imagine how much
> beneficial impact such a radical break with tradition would have had
> on the mindset of the community! But we're dealing with conservatism
> here and not with measurable improvements.
>
> Also, and I am on Charles' side on this, _who_ should have done this?
> Sun Microsystems, Microsoft?
conservatism is not the reason. the reason is lack of clear thinking.
like the summit guys suggesting pipe1.
by the way, i set up an automounter for irix 3 and 4 way back when that
set up private temp directories, among other things. it's even been done.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-07 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-05 3:38 sl
2014-12-05 9:50 ` David L. Craig
2014-12-06 0:08 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-12-06 5:22 ` lucio
2014-12-06 18:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-12-06 18:41 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-06 20:56 ` Wes Kussmaul
2014-12-07 4:23 ` lucio
2014-12-07 7:31 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-12-07 2:37 ` Bruce Ellis
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2014-12-03 23:49 Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-05 2:33 ` [9fans] " Charles Forsyth
2014-12-05 3:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2014-12-05 3:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-05 4:14 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-06 1:58 ` Bruce Ellis
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